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...Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, named by Vermont's pro-Willkie Governor Wills as one of the "four-year locusts of Republican politics" (TIME, Jan. 17), retorted last week with charges of a "Willkie blitz." Willkie managers, cried he, have tried to clinch the nomination for their man "before anyone else had a chance to be heard," by "false claims" that Willkie has 300 to 500 delegates already...
...Best estimate of the number bombed out to date: some 7,000,000 of Germany's 60,000,000 civilians. Britons bombed out during the blitz: approximately...
...reason for promoters' postwar optimism is the enterprise of the friendly bookies. Even during the worst days of the blitz, they kept the sport thriving. Between races at Romford and Wimbledon in 1941, they quoted odds on dogfights going on four miles overhead between the Luftwaffe and the R.A.F...
...Year's Day, 1941, when the blitz against London was in full swing, Adolf Hitler predicted: "The year will bring the completion of the greatest victory in our history." A year later, while the U.S. was still reeling from the shock of Pearl Harbor, the Führer said: "1942 will bring the decision for the salvation of our nation. . . ." Last year he cried: "The day will come when one of the contending parties in this struggle will. collapse. It will not be Germany." As 1944 opened he said: "In this war there will be no victors...
...night during the London blitz, Anglo-Irish Poet Louis MacNeice once wrote in Common Sense...